Revisiting algorithms for predicting the articulation loss of consonants ALcons

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 531-543

  Bistafa, Sylvio R ^a   Bradley, John S ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ARTICULATION LOSS; PEUTZ EQUATION;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 0033719963     PISSN: 00047554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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